Monday, 23 May 2016

The Conservative Party is beneath contempt

It is now vital that it is pointed out just how awful the Conservative Party really is. It is rotten from top to bottom and has no redeeming feature whatever.Gideon Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is saying that Britain would face a year long 'DIY recession' following a vote to Leave the European Union. This is the same Chancellor of the Exchequer who has made so many U turns on policies that he wanted to enact that he has no idea which way he is facing. This is the same Chancellor of the Exchequer who has put back the date at which the United Kingdom will have a balanced budget.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33445558"Chancellor George Osborne has delayed his promised budget surplus by a year.

The Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) forecasts now predicts a surplus of £10.0bn in 2019-20.

In March, the OBR forecast a surplus of £5.2bn in 2018-19, but that has now been revised to a £6.4bn deficit.

The OBR had described the March Budget plans as a rollercoaster rise because of the cuts in the first two years of the parliament and increased spending in the last two years."

Now it looks like the Conservative Party has real issues with its General Election expenditure and the Electoral Commission is investigating whether the Conservative Party has breached electoral law. The Scottish National Party is asking the Metropolitan Police to investigate. If the Conservative Party has breached electoral law, did they dishonestly appropriate the Election? Even David Cameron suggests there may be an issue:

Tory chairman Lord Feldman may have inadvertently ‘mis-declared’ or ‘left out’ vital General Election expenses, David Cameron indicated today – as he insisted the party would co-operate with a growing fraud inquiry.

Ten police forces and the Electoral Commission are now investigating claims that the Conservative Party spent thousands of pounds more than the law allows in marginal seats across the country during last year’s election.

The Prime Minister insisted today that the party had not ‘done anything wrong’.

But he appeared to acknowledge that some expenses may not have been declared in compliance with the letter of the law.

Asked if Lord Feldman would have to resign, Mr Cameron told ITV’s Peston on Sunday programme: ‘Well, I don’t believe we have done anything wrong. If there were mis-declarations or things left out we have to put those in place, but I’m confident we can answer all the questions that are being put to us.’

'The Conservative Party has not done anything wrong in omitting expenditure from its returns to the Electoral Commission' - the man is just lying. If they made a mistake they did it wrong - inadvertent or not.

What effect on a 6 seat overall majority (331 seats) - a 12 seat working majority did such activity have? Maybe they would not have won some marginal seats if they kept within the limits. Maybe they would not have had a majority.

There is a Conservative Civil War in train between David 'the Heir to Blair' Cameron and Gideon Osborne on the one hand and Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and Michael Gove on the other. They are not interested in the electorate at all but in their individual, political careers.

What is really important is the following quote:

"But if you ask me what is a more important decision, a General Election or this Europe vote, actually the Europe vote is more important. Because if you don't like the Government, you can always get rid of them in five years time. I obviously don't like that bit. But that's the truth. Whereas if we make this decision to leave the EU and get out of the single market and hit our economy and hit jobs, it would be very, very difficult if not impossible to reverse that decision." (David Cameron)

Why is the party in the country surprised? David Cameron has complete contempt for the party in the country. They are useful when knocking on doors but otherwise they can (and are) ignored.

The remarks were made by a senior figure in the Conservative Party who has strong social connections to the Prime Minister. “There’s really no problem,” the Conservative figure said about the parliamentary turmoil. “The MPs just have to do it because the associations tell them to, and the associations are all mad swivel-eyed loons.”

I don't believe that Vote Leave wants to Leave the European Union. Really. I believe that they would like to use a Leave vote to get a better 'deal' than Cameron brought home. Which would not be hard as Cameron's 'deal' has no legal basis whatever, needs treaty change (which is not on the near horizon) and which I believe our 'partners' will betray.

If the United Kingdom dusts off Flexcit (The Market Solution) and follows the steps outlined there we will not get out of the single market. We will remain in the single market using the EFTA/EEA route initially at least.

"But if you ask me what is a more important decision, a General Election or this Europe vote, actually the Europe vote is more important. Because if you don't like the Government, you can always get rid of them in five years time. I obviously don't like that bit. But that's the truth. Whereas if we make this decision to leave the EU .... it would be very, very difficult if not impossible to reverse that decision."

This vote is more important than the General Election.

This vote is more important (far more important) than the Conservative Party.

This vote is about who governs the United Kingdom; unelected faceless bureaucrats in Brussels OR the people, the electors of the United Kingdom.This may well be the last vote you get on this issue in the foreseeable future.Vote to get your power back.

Vote for the benefit of your children and grandchildren, for the next generation. Vote to Leave the European Union.